Yeah I have encountered that too! My friends wont come over cuz i own snakes! like what they just chillin on the couch or something? A lot of it is ignorance. Its human nature to fear what we dont understand, and a lot of it is just that people truly are disgusted by them. Surprisingly enough there are a certain few that find what I wanna do extremely interesting like my grandpa which caught me completely off guard. He was really interested in it and it was cool to just sit and talk snakes with him. But more often than not I will meet someone who is just appalled by it....